Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and the College, received a Loeb Classical Library fellowship.

the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Music, and the College, received a fellowship from the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin.

the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, the Committee on the History of Culture and the College, received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to sustain the work of the Center for Disciplinary Innovation at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, which he directs.

Assistant Professor in Music and the College, published Tonality and Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College and faculty director at the Cultural Policy Center, received an award for excellence in art crime scholarship from the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art for his book, The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division, published  Luminous Epinoia (The Cultural Society, 2010). He also edited John Taggart’s Is Music: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Chair), the Oriental Institute, and the College and executive editor of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary , published Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazkoi, Neunundfünfzigstes Heft: Texte aus dem Bezirk des Grossen Tempels X (Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2010) and was appointed an honorary member of the Societas Anatolica.

Professor in Germanic Studies, the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, and the College, was appointed the inaugural director of the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a book subvention award from the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies for his book Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon (Columbia University Press, 2011).

Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and the College, received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.